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somebodyointoutha the are pses fro the pakistan se. therare lapses from e whe world. >> the fact that osama bin laden lived in this peacefu country rais doubts. increasingly, there is the nse that pakistacann be trted. >> am he wit a fmer gh commsion to pakistan. thank you so much for coming in. i wa to get on r just a littit. thstocabout the desiony the white house n to release otographs. do you think there wasomething to begin, a ssed opportunity by the white house, tt th might ve been able to dissuade ose -- to persuade ose o arekeptical about the kilng of oma b laden? it would upset a lot of peop who may not have been a supportive. soar, the ainisation has acd with a lot of tax. >>uld itave angedhe minds amg the who tnk it ha not happened that he sot kied? >> anyone can visualize the images of peop's hds bwn off. it would looruesome to anne. this would have fednto the contversy. e soer we c close this chter, the sooner we c move . in the end, they made a sensie decion. >> you live in thi twn. yoknow what it is like there. you know
somebodyointoutha the are pses fro the pakistan se. therare lapses from e whe world. >> the fact that osama bin laden lived in this peacefu country rais doubts. increasingly, there is the nse that pakistacann be trted. >> am he wit a fmer gh commsion to pakistan. thank you so much for coming in. i wa to get on r just a littit. thstocabout the desiony the white house n to release otographs. do you think there wasomething to begin, a ssed opportunity by the white house, tt th might ve...
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how is the drug trafficking into pakistan how does hayden. oh it's hidden the same the drug barons operated the sale of the world it goes to tyson and central asian republics it goes from here on it goes through other sources and we happen to be one of the credit companies goes country it goes to pakistan also loads thirty thirty five percent approval from pakistan did use all the means whether it's your you know his men packed. crossing into. grew up mostly rooms and take it on the board and in me is that they would all be sick it's the water which is continuously going on they would all record for a few days then change to the next then to the next so that organisation on the other side which is doing it is very smart very educated and very well informed and we continue to fight there and we continue to fight that. and it's an ongoing war which is going on makes us diplomatic cables points to corruption involved controls between afghanistan and pakistan through which drugs flow what's being done to tackle cross border corruption cross borde
how is the drug trafficking into pakistan how does hayden. oh it's hidden the same the drug barons operated the sale of the world it goes to tyson and central asian republics it goes from here on it goes through other sources and we happen to be one of the credit companies goes country it goes to pakistan also loads thirty thirty five percent approval from pakistan did use all the means whether it's your you know his men packed. crossing into. grew up mostly rooms and take it on the board and...
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he's the father of pakistan. unfortunately, he died less than a year after pakistan's creation and ever since then, pakistan has had a lot of difficulty with its political leaders and many feel he died too soon. if he lived a bit longer, perhaps the foundations of pakistan's democracy might have been stronger. host: that was in 1947. what happened that created pakistan? guest: well, it was a mess. and it was a mess from which the country really has never recovered, in a way. this was during the time of british rule in the subcontinent of india and the decision was made very quickly and very arbitrarily by the british colonial rulers to separate, to make a new country. they arbitrarily divided northern india into india and pakistan and in a matter of weeks you had literally millions of people fleeing in all directions. you had indians trying to rush south into what was going to be india and -- sorry, hindus and sikhs fleeing into what would be india and muslims fleeing north into what would be pakistan and there w
he's the father of pakistan. unfortunately, he died less than a year after pakistan's creation and ever since then, pakistan has had a lot of difficulty with its political leaders and many feel he died too soon. if he lived a bit longer, perhaps the foundations of pakistan's democracy might have been stronger. host: that was in 1947. what happened that created pakistan? guest: well, it was a mess. and it was a mess from which the country really has never recovered, in a way. this was during the...
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i couldn't face writing pakistan. afghanistan for some reason was easy for me to write and i could not face writing pakistan. it was just this writer's block. i was writing around the half of the book that dealt with pakistan or only writing the funny bits, and then i went to visit my mother for ten days over christmas, which is a great way to write a book, because you realize that you have an excuse to get away from your mother for half the day, you know, because at least my mother likes to talk about feelings and emotions and things like that. so, i would take half the day and i would write the book, and then i would come and i would read it to her. and that -- i wrote all of pakistan in those ten days. i wrote about 5,000 words a day. it was all inside me waiting to come out and i kind of needed my mom around almost to hold my hand and to walk me through it. she didn't know any -- my parents did know any of the stuff i went through because you're protecting them. so i was really difficult for her as well to hear ev
i couldn't face writing pakistan. afghanistan for some reason was easy for me to write and i could not face writing pakistan. it was just this writer's block. i was writing around the half of the book that dealt with pakistan or only writing the funny bits, and then i went to visit my mother for ten days over christmas, which is a great way to write a book, because you realize that you have an excuse to get away from your mother for half the day, you know, because at least my mother likes to...
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the question about pakistan. where is he? pakistan. do the pakistanis know? now pakistan is involved. look at the map of where they found bin laden. they found bin laden in the compound. this is 1,000 yards away from bin laden's house. that's it. bin laden's house is surrounded by 18-foot walls and barbed wire. it's not exactly subtle. the town is filled with retired generals. pakistan is not looking good in this scenario. if you knew since august, did you not have that debate inside the administration behind closed doors? and think through what is going to happen with pakistan if we go in and take out bin laden? what to say to them? what to say to your own people and what to say to the whole world. the administration is trying to make us believe they didn't have the conversations. the administration are criticizing pakistan and demand we reconsider the $3 billion in aid we give to them. think of that. $3 billion in aid. what do we do? we give them the aid because if we don't the moderate will collapse. it would cripple them if we cut it off. others in the ad
the question about pakistan. where is he? pakistan. do the pakistanis know? now pakistan is involved. look at the map of where they found bin laden. they found bin laden in the compound. this is 1,000 yards away from bin laden's house. that's it. bin laden's house is surrounded by 18-foot walls and barbed wire. it's not exactly subtle. the town is filled with retired generals. pakistan is not looking good in this scenario. if you knew since august, did you not have that debate inside the...
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special forces in pakistan. the u.s. torn general has said informatio'seized from e compound could lead mor names bng added to aric's rrort watch list. the main palestinian factis fatahnd hamasave signed a recoiliaon deal in cairo brging an endto fr years of hostility. the agreement should mean a joint interim government an fresh electionsithia year. hower, that dimon not in yahoo! - hover,enjamin netanyahu h described it as e support of terrorism >> there were lebrions in gaza this afternn. palestinians in the yrs since hamaand fah split have often seemedo want uni mor tha their leader in the mile ea, its hard to achieve. >> with everhing going on in the arab wor, toy ishe best time to say w nd our untry, we need to esblish r owstate. [applause] >> thesign in cairo. the new governmen bkered an agreementhat theld regime wod not have coider. many egtianbelieved the reement was to close to israel. they may connd the deal. >> what happened in cairo was a tremendous blow to pee and a greavictory for trori >> has and fatahre
special forces in pakistan. the u.s. torn general has said informatio'seized from e compound could lead mor names bng added to aric's rrort watch list. the main palestinian factis fatahnd hamasave signed a recoiliaon deal in cairo brging an endto fr years of hostility. the agreement should mean a joint interim government an fresh electionsithia year. hower, that dimon not in yahoo! - hover,enjamin netanyahu h described it as e support of terrorism >> there were lebrions in gaza this...
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there is a stark contrast between pakistan and egypt. of course, pakistan is a sovereign nation which has certain interest at heart. sometimes our interest, belize, and values converge and sometimes they do not. with respect to what is going on in egypt, this is an yvette. there are potentially gre opportunities to come up with a counter-narrative to al qaeda and its franchisees and what it is espousing. >> i do not think there is any question that this provides a tremendous opportunity to try to move egypt in the right direction. i think the administration and the world for that matter hopes that will be the case. the opportunity is there. the opportunity for the leadership to be able to reach out to the opposition, to be able to develop the constitutional changes and political reforms that are necessary, and the opportunity to truly develop free and fair elections so that the people of egypt can exercise the same freedoms that we do. that is a tremendous opportunity. and it is one that i think we are taking all the steps possible to tr
there is a stark contrast between pakistan and egypt. of course, pakistan is a sovereign nation which has certain interest at heart. sometimes our interest, belize, and values converge and sometimes they do not. with respect to what is going on in egypt, this is an yvette. there are potentially gre opportunities to come up with a counter-narrative to al qaeda and its franchisees and what it is espousing. >> i do not think there is any question that this provides a tremendous opportunity...
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agency in pakistan. they pretty much control everything there. it's as if there's a combination of the cia, fbi, and their entire focus is on what's happening inside their country, not necessarily what's happening outside the country, so we would be followed. they could come to our doors. there's funny scenes of them following us around as i was getting dry cleaning. if we met with an afghan or indian, then you were on their radar. in other words, the isi is pretty much everywhere in that country, but it's not a top-down organization. it's not like as if the guy on top knows everything that's going ton below because of what happened during the 80s. they had different cells of the isi working with these different jihad groups to work across the border in afghanistan and in fighting against the soviets, so you have this mentality there to sl self-contained cells, almost like a terrorist organization, within the isi, so getting back to you question -- do i believe that the leadership of the isi and the afte
agency in pakistan. they pretty much control everything there. it's as if there's a combination of the cia, fbi, and their entire focus is on what's happening inside their country, not necessarily what's happening outside the country, so we would be followed. they could come to our doors. there's funny scenes of them following us around as i was getting dry cleaning. if we met with an afghan or indian, then you were on their radar. in other words, the isi is pretty much everywhere in that...
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pakistan is released done by the suggestions of the cia that it could not let its allies in pakistan intelligence know anything in advance about the planned raid on an osama bin laden. it is clear that the reformation would leak out and reach the intended target. in the words of the foreign secretary in share, pakistan is played a pivotal role in the global effort against extremism and its cooperation with united states over the years has been extensive. this report from my colleague in islamabad. >> pakistan security personnel stand guard around the compound were osama bin laden lives. washington says it did not give islam a bad any advance warning that the operation was about to again -- about to begin, for. that deadline would be averted. the dismissed these claims. to get the fact is that this particular occasion, it was pointed out by our intelligence question time ago to the u.s. intelligence, and they have the more sophisticated group to evaluate and assess. but it is a fact that most of these things that have happened in terms of success in what is called the global anti- ter
pakistan is released done by the suggestions of the cia that it could not let its allies in pakistan intelligence know anything in advance about the planned raid on an osama bin laden. it is clear that the reformation would leak out and reach the intended target. in the words of the foreign secretary in share, pakistan is played a pivotal role in the global effort against extremism and its cooperation with united states over the years has been extensive. this report from my colleague in...
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how is the drug trafficking into pakistan how is he didn't. oh it's hidden the save a drug barons operate the save all of the word it goes to tyson and central asian republics it goes from here on it goes through others and sources and we happen to be one of the tribe it only goes country it goes to pakistan also the wild turkey thirty five percent flow from pakistan they'd use all the means whether it's the old man his men back. crossing into. to our western regions and take it on the board and in way is that they did all six it's a water which is continuously going on they would out there for a few days then change to the next then to the next so there are medications on the other side which is doing it is very smart very as i and very well informed and we continue to fight that we continue to fight that. and it's an ongoing war which is going on makes us diplomatic cables points to corruption involved controls between afghanistan and pakistan through which drugs. what's being done to tackle cross corruption cross border corruption different
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tavis: there is a new normal in pakistan. >> yes. before osama bin laden, it was difficult to navigate. this is more so now. i think they will find some kind of equilibrium. the trust to the degree we are trying to build the, the trust has been dealt a serious setback. tavis: when are you headed back to pakistan and why, given the danger, are you going back? >> it is important to be there. -- this is critical to us and the region. this is what we do. if you calculate how you can do that. you try to minimize your risk. tavis: you are a woman. that makes it how much more difficult? >> in some ways, yes, in some ways, no. i get access that my male counterparts don't get. this is -- maybe this is just an added level of what it is that you need to cope with and deal with. tavis: julie mccarthy has just picked up a peabody award for her wonderful reported that we hear every day on npr. congratulations and safe travels. >> a pleasure to be here. tavis: up next, bustling travel writer paul theroux. stay with us. -- best selling travel writer
tavis: there is a new normal in pakistan. >> yes. before osama bin laden, it was difficult to navigate. this is more so now. i think they will find some kind of equilibrium. the trust to the degree we are trying to build the, the trust has been dealt a serious setback. tavis: when are you headed back to pakistan and why, given the danger, are you going back? >> it is important to be there. -- this is critical to us and the region. this is what we do. if you calculate how you can do...
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what happens in pakistan, and i have a lot of friends there. what happens in pakistan is very hard to explain in a rational logical sense because the conclusion that i draw, are this is a country that is hell bent on self destruction. given the fact -- >> charlie: hell bent on self destruction. >> i'm not taking advantage of -- let me put it another way. i'm not taking advantages of many opportunities that we and others have presented to them that would dramatically transform and help transform their society and move it forward in a more peaceful way not only in internal conflicts but external. >> charlie: part of the conventional wisdom is isi maintained relationship with the network because they want to have a player in afghanistan if things go bad. >> well ... >> charlie: they do things that are not in our interest. >> think that that is absolutely correct. but i will go a stepurther and say that the isi is not independently of the general. >> charlie: so therefore the buck stops with him. >> for rose that they suld explain perhaps at some p
what happens in pakistan, and i have a lot of friends there. what happens in pakistan is very hard to explain in a rational logical sense because the conclusion that i draw, are this is a country that is hell bent on self destruction. given the fact -- >> charlie: hell bent on self destruction. >> i'm not taking advantage of -- let me put it another way. i'm not taking advantages of many opportunities that we and others have presented to them that would dramatically transform and...
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. >> ne demonstratn an pakistan ainstsama bin den. few sol osambin laden in recent years. his facis o of e best knowin the world. the white house did n want the proof of his debt to provoke unrest. the predent today decid not to relse pictures othe cose. he addede is not a ophy, is i not who w are. >> it is n in our natial security ieresto allow those ages as have been inhe past en the cas toecome ico, against theennopinion unitedtate >> many agr the gruesome piures should not beade puic. itialopinn itiy not necessary to do so but i will refer to the judgment o the pside of the united states. >> e president walking a tighter tightope. th have made e big ms that, gettg muled aut what happened during the rd an correct t story. oba's tm was nt hearing at is going on in the compound. one of the top advisers first suggested that osaad been ared in s wife as a shield. living inobamosama a million-dollar compou. hiding behind won wh were put in frontf him as a shield. >>hat really happeneis tt his wif charge the commander and was shot in thleg. osam was unarmed but was killed any
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military advisers the west pakistan relationships but. since some of bin laden's killing and u.s. drone attacks that killed civilians the white house says islam about is an important ally in the war on terror but that the relationship quote must be worked on over time journalist or a she told me the business is going to be tough to fix i don't think we're seeing any signs that the u.s. officials are really sincere about the relationship. as a relationship between two independents over there would like to work together ten years ago. it was really very hard to find a clean clean shaven pakistan you criticize in the united states it was it was taken for granted if you're criticizing the u.s. you must be some radical extremist but today you have people from the upper classes of pakistan be really lead and very very critical of the united states so i think there's something really wrong and i think very a huge responsibility also on the of the u.s. media to convey the right it sure to the american public media which is unfortunately they're not doing very much toeing the whatever. lin
military advisers the west pakistan relationships but. since some of bin laden's killing and u.s. drone attacks that killed civilians the white house says islam about is an important ally in the war on terror but that the relationship quote must be worked on over time journalist or a she told me the business is going to be tough to fix i don't think we're seeing any signs that the u.s. officials are really sincere about the relationship. as a relationship between two independents over there...
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aid to pakistan continues to heat up in washington. whit johnson has the latest on the fights and tells us why both sides are holding their ground. >> reporter: with the discovery of osama bin laden right under pakistan's nose, the united states does not give out blank checks. >> reporter: but since 9/11, pakistan has received more than $20 billion u.s. dollars. it's slated for another 3 billion next year, making it the third largest recipient of u.s. foreign aid. >> i don't think there's an appetite in the congress to continue to fund pakistan, certainly not at the levels we are today. >> reporter: it's a message senator robert men endez and five of his democratic colleagues are taking directly to the administration. in a letter sent this week to defense secretary robert gates and secretary of state hillary clinton, the senators wrote, "we are gravely concerned about the commitment of pakistan's security establishment to fighting terrorism." the feelings are bipartisan. >> there have been lots of concerns about double dealing, playing
aid to pakistan continues to heat up in washington. whit johnson has the latest on the fights and tells us why both sides are holding their ground. >> reporter: with the discovery of osama bin laden right under pakistan's nose, the united states does not give out blank checks. >> reporter: but since 9/11, pakistan has received more than $20 billion u.s. dollars. it's slated for another 3 billion next year, making it the third largest recipient of u.s. foreign aid. >> i don't...
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>>> also, a woman in pakistan who is changing lives with small loans to the very poor. >>> major funding for "religion and ethics newsweekly" is provided by the lily endownment, an indianapolis base private foundation dedicated to founder's interest in religion, community development and education. additional funding by mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. and the corporation for public broadcasting. >>> welcome. i'm bob abernethy. it's good to have you with us. as the crisis in egypt continued to unfold this week, many questions have emerged about the religious implications, what role will religion play in a new government? and in particular, what role will the muslim brotherhood play? how will the new situation in egypt affect the rest of the middle east, including israel and the peace process? and how will egypt's christian minority fare? we explore all this with qamar-ul huda, a senior program officer at the u.s. institute of peace. he's a consultant in many parts of the middle east on conflict res
>>> also, a woman in pakistan who is changing lives with small loans to the very poor. >>> major funding for "religion and ethics newsweekly" is provided by the lily endownment, an indianapolis base private foundation dedicated to founder's interest in religion, community development and education. additional funding by mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. and the corporation for...
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what is scary is it's happening in pakistan among the elite. a country that is a linchpin and it tells us how much it's out of our happened and war within islam. >> bret: we have seen the attacks on the drones in pakistan and american touts that. do you believe there is a full-scale plan to deal inside pakistan with u.s. troops on the ground. special ops. >> they have the ability to go after terror sanctuary near the border. they're getting them across the border through intelligence, but that's one possibly. the real question is the nuclear weapon. they say the army at the end of the day will hold together. some people say we have a close relationship, too close ramp with the pakistani military but that's a thin read to depend on. >> bret: that's it for the panel. stay tuned for presidential comparison from a long time ago in a place far, far away. >> bret: finally tonight, after the lame duck session of congress, some reporters and political pundits called president obama another come back kid. but other shows chose another characterization.
what is scary is it's happening in pakistan among the elite. a country that is a linchpin and it tells us how much it's out of our happened and war within islam. >> bret: we have seen the attacks on the drones in pakistan and american touts that. do you believe there is a full-scale plan to deal inside pakistan with u.s. troops on the ground. special ops. >> they have the ability to go after terror sanctuary near the border. they're getting them across the border through...
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tribal areas again passion in the future about wali pakistan hold of a pan pakistan has told them go away from something with that with pakistan is what you told them that whatever understanding secretly existed between us that is now out and if pakistan does not cooperate. drone attacks cannot go on there maybe just one or two but the scale at which they are taking place now it is not possible to maintain that again so pakistan has now all the advantages not to put conditions number on india will not be in the stroller the proxy power because that will create and i'm warning this for the russians and for the regional countries if india gets a place larger than life in afghanistan you have another state of israel in there and it will create problems for the whole region probably iran for. translation countries for pakistan and particularly for china so this is going to be a lot of problems ok now that is one what pakistan must say biased and must say that there will be an even handed policy between us secondly pakistan must not insist pakistan must open of course goldenbridge must be
tribal areas again passion in the future about wali pakistan hold of a pan pakistan has told them go away from something with that with pakistan is what you told them that whatever understanding secretly existed between us that is now out and if pakistan does not cooperate. drone attacks cannot go on there maybe just one or two but the scale at which they are taking place now it is not possible to maintain that again so pakistan has now all the advantages not to put conditions number on india...
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where was pakistan at that time? in some ways this beak is also a book about america and pakistan, america and islam, so, you know, i don't want to sort of lose sight of those aspects of the book in, you know, in the fine grain because she is a vehicle for a lot of these sort of meditations, but as to the question of what i decided to do with her letters. i felt it was important for -- to have her as a vehicle for the reader to experience her letters, you know, with immediacy in her own words rather than me paraphrasing them or, you know, saying, you know, well, she says that she graduated from high school in 1953, but actually it was 1952. i find that correcting voice as a biographer is very distancing, and i wanted the readers to feel about her the way i felt about her when i first started reading the letters, to be completely sucked into her world, and, you know, if i, you know, had said at the outset that, you know, that she was institutionalized, then you know people will just say she's crazy and not have to wre
where was pakistan at that time? in some ways this beak is also a book about america and pakistan, america and islam, so, you know, i don't want to sort of lose sight of those aspects of the book in, you know, in the fine grain because she is a vehicle for a lot of these sort of meditations, but as to the question of what i decided to do with her letters. i felt it was important for -- to have her as a vehicle for the reader to experience her letters, you know, with immediacy in her own words...
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>> guest: mostly afghanistan. >> host: what about pakistan? i think we are the right path in afghanistan but we do have a plausible strategy in the resources to carry out i am also sure about pakistan. do you feel we're on the right track and if not what should we be doing? >> guest: pakistan this effort -- very difficult but because we hear some day problems we will throw some things that are quite promising. we have a real independent presence before you just had state tv and dozens of few stations which are quite anti-american and pro democracy. second you have the lawyers movement and third, the pro religious and pro taliban parties have been annihilated and pakistan does not want the foreign role. these pro taliban religious parties only got to% of the vote to. there are positives and negatives of course, there is a brilliant story a few days ago about the assassin that was showered with paddles of those who got musharraf out of power because they educated people who are pro democracy at applaud the guy who assassinates one of the most im
>> guest: mostly afghanistan. >> host: what about pakistan? i think we are the right path in afghanistan but we do have a plausible strategy in the resources to carry out i am also sure about pakistan. do you feel we're on the right track and if not what should we be doing? >> guest: pakistan this effort -- very difficult but because we hear some day problems we will throw some things that are quite promising. we have a real independent presence before you just had state tv...
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we do not want to have pakistan as an enemy, but pakistan on the other hand has its own agenda. the united states looks at pakistan as part of a geopolitical game. pakistan has its own agenda that has a lot to do with boundaries. how we deal with the taliban and so forth. and for the united states to keep on working. at the same time, the united states does not want the connection. i think pakistan could be very dangerous. >> right. if they get cut loose. iraq it's a mess. you referenced them earlier in the conversation, and i look at it, and every time you pick up the newspaper, there is another bombing. will that ever straighten out. do you have hope there? >> it is a mixed picture. yes, there are bombing incidents. they are not at the level of the past, but there are many incidents still. on the other hand, there are muddling through in a sense. it is not a democratic system, is in the system. tense coexistence, but nevertheless, it is and coexistence. >> iran, what will happen there, and how will that work out? >> certainly they are not giving in to the sanctions. they are n
we do not want to have pakistan as an enemy, but pakistan on the other hand has its own agenda. the united states looks at pakistan as part of a geopolitical game. pakistan has its own agenda that has a lot to do with boundaries. how we deal with the taliban and so forth. and for the united states to keep on working. at the same time, the united states does not want the connection. i think pakistan could be very dangerous. >> right. if they get cut loose. iraq it's a mess. you referenced...
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. >> a court in pakistan has freed an american cia contractor who shot dead two men. the families of the victims agreed to pardon him in exchange for $2 million. the case has strained relations between washington and islamabad. many accused raymond davis of being a spy. >> this was raymond davis just after his arrest. president obama called him our it diplomat. many in pakistan branded him a spy. now he is a free man thanks to a payment of blood money. the cia contractor admitted opening fire from inside his car at a busy round about. he says they pulled a gun on him in an attempted robbery. police accused him of cold- blooded murder. >> as recently as three days ago the widow of one of his victims told me she wanted prevents -- wanted revenge and not compensation. she said her husband never got to see these wedding pictures. they arrived after his death. >> my future is gone. my world is empty. i have been left with nothing. what will i do with money? it will not bring back my happiness. >> but in spite of those statements from her and other relatives, a deal was don
. >> a court in pakistan has freed an american cia contractor who shot dead two men. the families of the victims agreed to pardon him in exchange for $2 million. the case has strained relations between washington and islamabad. many accused raymond davis of being a spy. >> this was raymond davis just after his arrest. president obama called him our it diplomat. many in pakistan branded him a spy. now he is a free man thanks to a payment of blood money. the cia contractor admitted...
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this wasn't someone who caved in pakistan. let's take a step back. the personnel on the base was led by a woman named jennifer matthews, a mother of three who lived in virginia, not far from where we are now. she came along the way in this attack for a lot of criticism but let's start at the beginning why was she chosen for what was a very, very important part? >> guest: she's a remarkable character in her own right and as you say, she came under quite a bit of criticism after the attack perhaps being naive and maybe too trusting of this informant when he was coming on to the base, but this was a woman who paid her dues for the cia and had become overly period of a decade and a half of the most knowledgeable al qaeda experts she was there before al qaeda was known by almost anyone sort of our giving and agitating paying more attention to these guys and after 9/11 happened, her and her entire branch in the cia was screaming. we told you so. this is a huge mistake we didn't pay attention when we should have. and so she became even more sort of involved
this wasn't someone who caved in pakistan. let's take a step back. the personnel on the base was led by a woman named jennifer matthews, a mother of three who lived in virginia, not far from where we are now. she came along the way in this attack for a lot of criticism but let's start at the beginning why was she chosen for what was a very, very important part? >> guest: she's a remarkable character in her own right and as you say, she came under quite a bit of criticism after the attack...
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a year after the heavy floods in pakistan, the heavy rains return. it is 11:00 a.m. in singapore. >> it is 4:00 a.m. and london, broadcasting on pbs in america and around the world, this is " newsday." >>> hello and welcome. we start with an update on the breaking news from afghanistan. there have been two suicide attacks on a british cultural office and the capital, and we look at the latest pictures from kabul. a spokesman for nato forces at says the target appeared to have been the british council which specializes in educational and cultural exchanges. witnesses said one wall of the building has been destroyed and gunfire could be heard. an unconfirmed report said that to afghan policeman and eight municipal workers have been killed. we're also getting reports of a third explosion, and we will get you more on that as soon as we have it. two explosions, reports of a third explosion, and it is feared three people have been killed. >>> some of the day's other news, let me bring some of the other news. israeli fighter jets have been bombing gaza overnight after a str
a year after the heavy floods in pakistan, the heavy rains return. it is 11:00 a.m. in singapore. >> it is 4:00 a.m. and london, broadcasting on pbs in america and around the world, this is " newsday." >>> hello and welcome. we start with an update on the breaking news from afghanistan. there have been two suicide attacks on a british cultural office and the capital, and we look at the latest pictures from kabul. a spokesman for nato forces at says the target appeared...
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sticking with pakistan for a little bit here, there's a popularly elected government in pakistan backed by the military, generally assumed to really run the show, does that mod et still -- model still fit your theory? can you have essentially a front man, somebody out there who is the person with whom the united states deals directly who is mentioned in the book somewhat admiringly for his ability -- >> guest: chief of admiration, yes. >> host: there you go. perhaps you can talk about that. is he a dictator? does he fit your model? >> guest: well, this is the beauty of the democratic systems that have not evolved. we have elections, so we'd like to think of the classic one man, one vote, one person, one vote. this is how we like to think about elections functioning, but in many, many cases, we find that people twaim implicitly end up voting in big blocks. if you were to think about the pakistan case, there's a rural area, a politician shows up, and they make a deal with the elders, and if they deliver enough votes, they won't get much, but they will get a few jobs. there's going to be s
sticking with pakistan for a little bit here, there's a popularly elected government in pakistan backed by the military, generally assumed to really run the show, does that mod et still -- model still fit your theory? can you have essentially a front man, somebody out there who is the person with whom the united states deals directly who is mentioned in the book somewhat admiringly for his ability -- >> guest: chief of admiration, yes. >> host: there you go. perhaps you can talk...
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therefore, we are stuck with pakistan because we withdraw in this case pakistan, or we entice her pakistan in various ways into collaborating in a staged withdrawal, so this comes to the point that there really doesn't matter if what happened in the past at this moment, if our goal list to somehow exit afghanistan without attempting, we must deal with pakistan. who else can we -- >> host: that's right. the question isn't so much dealing with pakistan with is the longer-term out, in terms of are they going to come away from wherever we end up with a new status quo in afghanistan we committed to their campaign of undermining their neighbor next door in india. >> guest: that is exactly the choice. we can avoid that by staying in afghanistan permanently. or live with it. so here is exactly how i approach a foreign policy issue. if pakistan comes to be secure in afghanistan to destabilize india. shall we therefore see permanent in afghanistan? how do we prevent that? where i come to stay yes, pakistan and india have reasons to distrust each other. i don't think they are going to go away. i thin
therefore, we are stuck with pakistan because we withdraw in this case pakistan, or we entice her pakistan in various ways into collaborating in a staged withdrawal, so this comes to the point that there really doesn't matter if what happened in the past at this moment, if our goal list to somehow exit afghanistan without attempting, we must deal with pakistan. who else can we -- >> host: that's right. the question isn't so much dealing with pakistan with is the longer-term out, in terms...
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therefore, i regard can we trust pakistan cannot trust pakistan, i don't know what to do with it. because i see our country as having decisions, and i think this is not a realist or an idealist position. this is simply the way we have played the cards that have led us here. can we do this and get pakistan to stop undermining india and get india to start undermining pakistan? that, we don't know how to do. and one of the problems is when you meet your foreign policy that ambitious, that i don't simply want to get out -- >> host: the failure are much, much higher -- >> guest: and you leave yourself in afghanistan. then for the moment having those on hundred 50,000 troops out, i'm not particularly interested in the national interest of the united states, what kind of government there is in kabul, and i want to see the united states more balanced and able to respond to the russian invasion of georgia and the things of that sort, so i want to balance the foreign policy. afghanistan creates an unbalanced foreign policy and my question is how to rebalance it and there is an ugly price to
therefore, i regard can we trust pakistan cannot trust pakistan, i don't know what to do with it. because i see our country as having decisions, and i think this is not a realist or an idealist position. this is simply the way we have played the cards that have led us here. can we do this and get pakistan to stop undermining india and get india to start undermining pakistan? that, we don't know how to do. and one of the problems is when you meet your foreign policy that ambitious, that i don't...
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punjob was also murdered for speaking out against the blasphemy law in pakistan. these books feed this violence and hatred towards christians and others who disagree. >> u.s. commission on international freedom is in danger of losing the funding. is that likely? what will be the impact if that happens? >> right now there is a hold on the reauthorization. this is not reappropriations of money. this is reauthorization of the mandate of the commission. this has to be passed by november 18th. it passed overwhelm in the house of representatives and now stuck in the senate, one senator, democratic leadership has put a hold on it. this will mean the commission will cease to exist as of november 18th. we maybe included in a continuing resolution and get another lease on life. we need to be reauthorized. our mandate needs to be renewed for us to continue. >> nina, we always enjoy you being on the program, thanks so much, nina. >> thank you. >>> come up, how a miraculous healing led this muslim woman to faith in christ and the high price she pays for leaving islam. >> as ch
punjob was also murdered for speaking out against the blasphemy law in pakistan. these books feed this violence and hatred towards christians and others who disagree. >> u.s. commission on international freedom is in danger of losing the funding. is that likely? what will be the impact if that happens? >> right now there is a hold on the reauthorization. this is not reappropriations of money. this is reauthorization of the mandate of the commission. this has to be passed by november...
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the problem is the pakistan ministry has not only exaggerated ideas of the influence pakistan can have over afghanistan, but that it determines to pursue that goal. >> but it's one thing to have that kind of disagreement. it's another thing to bring it to a head. and i really don't see it coming to a head in any fashion in the next year. it's going to probably be longer than that because the afghanistan situation is going to take longer than that to develop to know what afghanistan can really do by itself. >> could guys in congress cut funding for pakistan? >> i don't think they will cut funding. >> i think cooler heads will prevail and realize there are other interests involved there. china, for example. and it would sort of -- it would sort of be foolish for us to cut off aid. >> coming up >>> we're back with our roundtable discussion. i want to start with rick mays, the super committee fail today reach a deficit reduction deal. see questerration is now the law of the land. it's supposed to take another $600 out of the pentagon spending. there are people in the pentagon that don't be
the problem is the pakistan ministry has not only exaggerated ideas of the influence pakistan can have over afghanistan, but that it determines to pursue that goal. >> but it's one thing to have that kind of disagreement. it's another thing to bring it to a head. and i really don't see it coming to a head in any fashion in the next year. it's going to probably be longer than that because the afghanistan situation is going to take longer than that to develop to know what afghanistan can...
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open if they want to withdraw it is good for pakistan the sooner they go the better for pakistan and for everybody else also in the region except india and except israel now if they agree that we should be given the same skater's nuclear status as india it will lead to more demand because that sister always hanging on pakistan's nuclear. and we should say we have we had a declared deal killer power you have to accept our position put us in the nuclear club along with you and other countries this is another condition third condition that we should put to them is that please tell india that if they want a most favored nation state of whatever it is they must certainly kashmir issue according to the will of the people it's human rights issue it is the right of a nation and they are simply ignoring it because america is not interested in settlement of kashmir issue and finally we should say. that your embassy head is not itself a wartime embassy within are you're fighting a war against and you have maintained your troops inside your embassy you have built barracks of their police now cut
open if they want to withdraw it is good for pakistan the sooner they go the better for pakistan and for everybody else also in the region except india and except israel now if they agree that we should be given the same skater's nuclear status as india it will lead to more demand because that sister always hanging on pakistan's nuclear. and we should say we have we had a declared deal killer power you have to accept our position put us in the nuclear club along with you and other countries...
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but not to the same extent that it is in pakistan. in pakistan there were instances where if we break here we can run the water through the state into the desert and save hundreds of the villages. unfortunately the guy whose land was going to go through he sort of went up on the bridge and said this isn't going to happen so we see bad public policy and redistribution and we are saving the few chosen even though the system is normally nondemocratic. >> guest: one of the things that we are hoping to cure people of and the dictators handbook is the distinction of the categorical regimes, democracy, autocracy, monarchies. for instance, we talk about a winning coalition drawn from the pool of people. all the democracies have the characteristic that the selected is very large, the pool of people coming and the winning coalition is relatively large but highly variable in size. britain to control the prime ministership become a candidate in the two-party race needs to win half of the parliamentary districts with half of the votes so they don'
but not to the same extent that it is in pakistan. in pakistan there were instances where if we break here we can run the water through the state into the desert and save hundreds of the villages. unfortunately the guy whose land was going to go through he sort of went up on the bridge and said this isn't going to happen so we see bad public policy and redistribution and we are saving the few chosen even though the system is normally nondemocratic. >> guest: one of the things that we are...